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This is the remarkable story of James Lee who, starting in 1895, spent 20 years pursuing all the pleasures and dangers that the Far East had to offer. A twilight world of ports, red light districts,drug dens and secret chambers of vice from Aden to Kyoto.
Contents
About drugs; go out to India; the coming of the tiger; I meet Mulki; I learn to inject morphia; strange waking dreams; the return of the tiger; the healing of the wound; the delights of hashish; a trip to Calcutta; investigating the Calcutta underworld; we travel by night; the mutiny cities of India; the death of Healy; I go to the Malay Archipelago; in the jungles of Sumatra; a railway terminus in the jungle; in the Chinese "Bongsals"; a strange waking vision; Singapore; the loading wharf; I discover the elixir of life; lost in the jungles of Sumatra; the rhinoceros; the beachcomber; the underworld of the ports; strange thoughts and visions; Calcutta is startled; thugs and dacoits; Piccadilly; the Gold Coast; Rio-de-Janeiro; the Shanghai underworld; the Chinese city; a trip to Japan; how the poor live; visions; an adventure.